Alex222 Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 right then... I'm Looking for a couple of solutions for this.. What I need to do is drop about 100 balloons simultaneously :unsure: . possibly 200 in two areas of 100. At the moment I don't have much or an idea about how to do this. In my mind there must be some pyro solution. or something simpler.., If building some sort of structure is necessary for a solution then thats fine. Thanks.Alex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunk_1984 Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 A suspended net, with a pull chord in the centre that runs off via pulleys to an edge somewhere. then you pull the string it lifts the middle of the net and all the balloons fall out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex222 Posted February 16, 2009 Author Share Posted February 16, 2009 A suspended net, with a pull chord in the centre that runs off via pulleys to an edge somewhere. then you pull the string it lifts the middle of the net and all the balloons fall out.Thanks for that, was the sort of thing I had thought about but wasn't sure it it would work. Certainly is something that I will test out now that it is something that has been offered as a solution. Alex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niclights Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Google "balloon drop"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ynot Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Baloon nets are precisely the way this is (almost) always done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex222 Posted February 16, 2009 Author Share Posted February 16, 2009 Google "balloon drop"!ahh, a lot more useful than the random things I typed in :unsure: . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisD Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 At Heaven in London they regularly do balloon drops. They use cages with netting on the outside, and some sort of fabric underneath, perhaps velcro'd in place. Pull a string peeling the velcro'd fabric back, and everything drops out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Yellow Transit Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Pulling the cord is the fun bit :) blowing up the baloons is the boring part :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ynot Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Pulling the cord is the fun bit :) blowing up the baloons is the boring part :unsure:I seem to recall many years ago one venue had a company in to hang the net and baloons - sent a new boy to do the job who somehow managed to fill the baloons with helium, not air from the tanks in the van... He apparently was chuffed at how easy it was to get the baloons IN to the net, but.................... :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Pulling the cord is the fun bit :) blowing up the baloons is the boring part :unsure:I seem to recall many years ago one venue had a company in to hang the net and baloons - sent a new boy to do the job who somehow managed to fill the baloons with helium, not air from the tanks in the van... He apparently was chuffed at how easy it was to get the baloons IN to the net, but.................... :D :D I was going to offer a very similar analogy. xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smeggie Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 one way that needs a little skill with knots, but works pretty well, is using a mosquito tent upside down, and chopped up to provide the slits - lightweight, and large volume of cargo space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerousMark Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Pulling the cord is the fun bit :P blowing up the baloons is the boring part :** laughs out loud **:I seem to recall many years ago one venue had a company in to hang the net and baloons - sent a new boy to do the job who somehow managed to fill the baloons with helium, not air from the tanks in the van... He apparently was chuffed at how easy it was to get the baloons IN to the net, but.................... :P :huh: :o Tscch!!! :** laughs out loud **: Apart from this, the thread sounds like a great example of how the complex, flashy solutions aren't always the best/most effective way :D (and even so, your elegant ones can be ruined by hard-to-predict numpty mistakes, themselves an attempt to get things done "better" by hi-tech means) Dropping a load of balloons at once? Get a net and a bit of string :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkPAman Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 great example of how the complex, flashy solutions aren't always the best/most effective way :** laughs out loud **: I worked an event where lots of small balloons were put inside some very large ones (how do they do that?). IIRC there were tickets to collect prizes inside the small ones. These big balloons were then attached in the roof along with some sort of small pyro type thingy (can you tell I'm an expert), which was to burst the big'uns and let the little ones drop. Well most of the pyro didn't fire. I must admit it was rather amusing watching the guy from the pyro/balloon company walking round the room holding a very long stick with a pin on the end :unsure: It wasn't quite the effect we were expecting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paradoxism Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 Using pyro to trigger the drop might give a whole new meaning to blowing up balloons! Certainly more fun than the traditional meaning! Strangely I now have an odd desire to attach helium balloons to the corners of a net, attach a small microdet to each one with a remote switch of some sort, let it drift up to the ceiling, fill the hall with people and then fire the pyros and watch the chaos... Probably not much fun for whoever the PP3 battery falls on though - oh well! Balloon net all the way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerousMark Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 That .... is.... BRILLIANT! Well until someone inevitably gets trampled/suffocated in the blind panic :blink: Sorry didn't mean to be a downer there it just occurred to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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